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Chapter 31 of 32 · Bourbon for Breakfast by Jeffrey A. Tucker

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Abagnale, Frank Jr., 339

Adoption agencies, 212

Advertising. See Marketing

Against Intellectual Monopoly, 113

Air conditioning vs fans, 37

Albornoz, Bartolomé de, 71

“American Affairs” journal, 256

American Express, 91

America’s Great Depression, 311

Austrian business cycle theory, 309

Austrian School of economics, 110

Austrian School tradition, 254

Austro-libertarian tendencies, 223

Ballet and Culture, 226

Baruch, Bernard, 255

Bastiat, Frederic, 8

Beatty, Warren, 333

Beowulf, 325

Berliner, David, 147

Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, 241

Bi-metallism, 258

Block, Walter, 170, 213

Blogging, 104

Bloody Mary recipe, 246

Boehringer Ingelheim Inc., 178

Boldrin, Michele, 113

Books

electronic and print, 127

mechanized copy, 135

Mises Institute author list, 130

Bourbon and coffee, 246

Bourbon and social norms, 7

Branden, Nathaniel, 120

Bread or meat, 241

Bryant, Louise, 333

Bubble that Broke the World, 254

Buckley, William F., 265

Bureaucracy, 130

Bureaucrat International, 22

Bureaucrats. See also Crime

bureaucrats and the free market, 130

government worker attitudes, 167

Burns, Jennifer, 118

Bush, George W., 336

Business Cycles, 309

Cabrini, Mother, 206

Causes of the Economic Crisis, The, 311

Cecilia, Saint, 206

Cell-phone addiction, 141

Centesimus Annus, 107

principles, historical observations, and applications, 110

solidarity, 107

subsidiarity, 107

Central planning

characteristics of, 146–148

editorial cartoons, 301

Chafuen, Alejandro, 102

Chamberlain, John, 254

Chambers, Whittaker, 265

Chez Madeleine, 256

Child labor, 77

exemption, 79

Cinder Buggy, 254

Clapham, Michael, 136

Clothing

sartorial advice, 193–197

what to wear, 174–176

Commerce. See Free market and commerce

Computer security, 149–151

Conservatism

contemporary view of patriotism, 273

traits, 266

Consumer Products Safety Commission, 216

Consumer volition, 314

Copyright and patents

assumption of justice, 304

Creative Commons License, 115

lawsuits, 27

natural limitations of, 138

restriction of innovation, 8

Court. See Crime

Court of tastes and manners, 267

Creveld, Martin van, 167

Crime

and politics, 154

arbitrary judiciary, 158

creating the bureaucrat, 165

criminalizing resistance, 159

here comes the judge, 155

money and the courts, 160

police reality, 164

right to resist, 159

society in jail, 153

traffic ticket racket, 161

ultimate enforcement, 155

Currency. See Money

Davis, Bette, 207

Death, 45

DiCaprio, Leonardo, 339

Dietemann, Al, 13

Discovery of Freedom, 207

Discussion flame-throwers, 219

Doghair drinks, 247

Driver, The, 254

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 250

Eastman, Max, 333

Economic literacy, 94

Education

Deweyite-Progressivist model, 148

failed testing schemes, 146

fallacy of degrees, 85

homeschools, 148

school vouchers, 147

Education of Henry Adams, 266

Energy Policy Act, 25

Entrepreneurial risk, 92

Etymologiae, 140

Failed drinker and smoker, 229–230

Fair Labor Standards Act, 77

Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics, 102

FDR, 52, 85, 263

Federal Energy Policy Act, 14

Federal flight marshals, 166

Film Noir, 319–323

Finn, Chester, 147

Flusser, Alan, 313

Fortune cookies and economics, 233

Fountainhead, The, 119, 319

Fousee, William, 177

Free association principle, 210

Freedom

democracy without values, 108

division of labor, 109

entrepreneurship, 109

individual moral conviction, 109

Pope John Paul II, 107

private property, 109

profit, 109

reimagining, 9

rights of the human conscience, 108

Social Assistance State, 108

to associate, 71, 76

Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor, 68

Freeman periodical, 266

Free market and commerce

comparative advantage, 71

cooperation and exchange, 70

exchange matrix illustration, 68

free markets and freedom, 90

fruits of the regulator, 88

government anti-market policies, 88

lobbyist abuse, 179

privatization of roads, 170

protectionism and your nose, 178

public ownership problem, 22

results of government regulation, 88

self-interest, 316

shortage of goods, 23

state ownership, 23

the regulators argument, 87

French, Douglas, 9

Friedman, Milton, 52

Garbage

abolishing city trash pickup, 43

garbage disposals, 29

plague, 42

William F. Buckley and your garbage, 41

Garrett, Garet, 253

Gay adoption, 209

Gekko, Gordon, 313

Goddess of the Market, 118

God of the Machine, 119

Goldberg, Jonah, 209

Goldman, Emma, 333

Good-government movements, 251

Good Money, 50

Great Depression, 310

Guilt. See also Political Correctness

private gain, 61

technology guilt, 144

Guinness Stout, 245

Haircuts, 185

Hanks, Tom, 339

Hanratty, Carl, 339

Harangue, 261–263, 316

Hayek, Friedrich von

approach to debate, 221

on currency, 52

Health

as pretext for expanding power, 184

Avian Influenza, 181

cigarettes and reverse psychology messaging, 215

Clinton health care plan, 299

pandemic preparedness, 181

pseudoephedrine, 178

www.pandemicflu.gov, 181

Heaney, Seamus, 325

Heroes

demi-gods of the state, 326

Holcombe, Randall, 183

Homeschools. See Education

Hopkins, Anthony, 352

Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, 127

Hülsmann, Jörg Guido, 221

Human Action, 68, 127

Impersonal state, 167

Intellectual property rights.
See also Copyright and patents

as ruse, 138

collegiate restrictions, 118

fallacy of IP, 125

intellectual confusion, 123

Mises Institute philosophy of, 139

ownership of ideas, 113

Jefferson, Thomas, 204

Jevons, William Stanley, 255

Kaufman, Trevor, 174

Keaton, Diane, 333

Keynes, John Maynard, 52

Kinsella, Stephan, 213

Labor

Beatitude of Labor, 80

child-labor laws as insidious, 80

division of, 67, 109

employee attitudes, 174

employee/employer relationship, 74

ethic, 95

impact of labor laws, 84

labor contract, 74

“labor of love”, 57

labor union exclusionism, 80

lessons of the state, 81

relationship between work and reward, 84

right to fire employees, 76

social authority, 81

teen unemployment rate, 83

value of, 95

wrongful termination, 73

Labor Day, 83

Laissez-faire and adoption, 213

Lane, Rose Wilder, 207

Lanham, Fritz G., 80

Left-wing statism, 337

Lenin, 334

Levine, David, 113

Liberal reform movement, 271

Libertarian apologetic, 207

Life

a few don’ts, 96

five secrets of success, 96

truth of getting fired, 73

Life with the Printed Word, 254

Limits on innovation, 8

Lorimer, George Horace, 256

MacLennan, Hugh, 266

Madmen, 215

Mahler, Gustav, 203

Maltsev, Yuri, 147

Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market, 127

Manners

about hats, 176

button etiquette, 175

five essential table manners, 201

jacket protocol, 175

modern sartorial index, 173

table etiquette, 200

table manners and you, 199

Mariana, Juan de, 205

Marketing

costs of, 105

principles of, 104–106

Market system, 22. See also Free market and commerce

Mark Twain, 275

Martinez, Antonio, 136

Matthew of Flanders, 136

McCain, John, 166

Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 265

Mimosa drink, 246

Minimum wage and attitude, 76

Mises, Ludwig von, 127

approach to debate, 220

biographical sketch, 204

business cycle, 311

business propaganda, 106

Mises.org., 127, 129

Missionary Sisters of the Poor, 206

Molina, Luis de, 102

Money

bi-metallism, 258

coin value, 49

destruction of money, 52

“failed use” resources, 63

fallacy of state issued money, 51

FDR, 52

hyperinflation, 336

market society, 61

political truth and coins, 49

Prices and Production, 52

private gain “guilt trip”, 61

role of money in society, 56

the fair-trade scam, 60

the great modern lie, 53

toll of anticapitalistic mentality, 62

Moral ambiguity, 322

Morals, 32

Mother Cabrini, 206

Movies

Beowulf, 325

Catch Me If You Can, 339

Dangerous Crossing, 321

Detour, 320

Double Indemnity, 320

Godfather, 343

I Wake Up Screaming, 321

Jetsons cartoon series, 347

Man Who Cheated Himself, 321

Memento, 343

Nixon, 351

Quicksand, 320

Reds, 333

Scar, 321

Spider-Man, 329

Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 321

Wall Street, 313

Mr. Jefferson, 266

Myth of National Defense, 127

Myth of Neutral Taxation, 128

National Review, 265

Newcomb, Simon, 255

New Deal, 262–264

Night of January 16th, 119

Nixon, Richard, 351

No Child Left Behind, 145

Nock, Albert Jay, 179, 265

Nolan, Chris, 346

Not a Zero-Sum Game, 68

Obama, Barack Hussein, 336

Objectivist clubs, 120

Ode to Chicks, 47

Ode to Sticky, 47

Omnipotent Government, 129

O’Neill, Eugene, 333

Our Enemy, The State, 265

Palmart, Lambert, 136

Patents. See Copyright and patents

Paterson, Isabel, 119

Patriotism, 272–274

Pearce, Guy, 343

People’s Pottage, 253

Picture of Dorian Grey, 205

Political Correctness

civic piety, 55

environmentalists, 27

environmentalists and truth, 28

“give back” to the community, 56

labor of love, 57

neighbor against neighbor, 22

perversion of moral sensibility, 32

power leverage, 21

prohibitionism, 7

that “uneasy” feeling, 17

who are these people, 19

Pope John Paul II, 71

Centesimus Annus, 107

nature of the total state, 108

rights of the human conscience, 108

structure of society, 107

truth about the human person, 107

Pope Leo XIII, 71

Pound cake, 238

Prices, 99–102

Prices and Production, 52

Principles of Political Economy, 255

Profit’s Prophet, 255

Progressive Era, 333

Prohibitionism, 7

Public goods theory, 183

Publishing

brief history of, 133

Mises Institute philosophy of, 139

Puerto, Alonso del, 136

Raimondo, Justin, 255

Rand, Ayn, 118, 258, 314. See also Intellectual property rights

Reactionaries, 337

Reclaiming the American Right, 255

Reed, John, 333

Ricardo, David, 71

Riggenbach, Jeff, 323

Right-wing statism, 337

Robbins, Lord Lionel, 310

Rockwell, Llewellyn H., Jr., 9, 127

Rothbard, Murray, 222, 266

Ruskin, John, 225

Ryant, Carl, 255

Saint Cecilia, 206

Salvos Against the New Deal, 310

Satan’s Bushel, 254

Schumann, Clara, 206

Seattle Water Board, 13

Segura, Bartolomme, 136

Self-ordering systems, 109

Selgin, George, 50

Shaving, heaven and hell, 189

Shelby, Leonard, 343

Sherman Antitrust Act, 258

Social Assistance State, 108

Social consciousness, 59

Social order

pillars of society, 308

Solidarity, 107

Speaking of Liberty, 127

Spielberg, Steven, 339

Sports knowledge and humiliation, 185

Stapleton, Maureen, 334

State ownership, 23

State Power, 153–156

criminalize resistance, 159

economic freedom, 269

government as force, 171

parasitic state, 270

pretexts for expanding power, 184

ultimate control, 171

Statism, 8

Statist Quo, 8

St. Bernardino, 101

Stone, Oliver, 313

Stromberg, Joseph, 213

Subsidiarity, 107

Ten Days that Shook the World, 333

The breakfast drink, 247

“The Free Market: A False Idol After All”, 87

Toilets

black market, 26

capitalism and waste disposal, 27

Energy Policy Act, 25

multiple flush strategy, 27

remember when?, 26

toilet disasters, 25

toilet tank size, 16

Transportation Security Administration, 165

Trash. See Garbage

Trithemius, 136

Trotsky, 334

Unions and Guilds

Certified Landscape Irrigation Manager, 35

costs of unions & guilds, 33

destruction of a competitive economy, 34

how a guild strangles the market, 35

Vengeance, 344

Virtues, 314

Voluntarism, 55

Water

avoiding egregious violations, 15

federal water flow mandate, 14

hack your water heater, 20

total water consumption, 16

water heater temperature, 17

water restriction work-around, 15

Weather, 21

Why American History Is Not What They Say, 323

Wilde, Oscar, 205

Wilder Lane, Rose, 207

Wild Wheel, 254

Wilson, Woodrow, 336

Wired Magazine, 73

Wobblies, 333

Women of two kinds, 322

Work. See Labor

World Health Organization, 183

Zoe Industries Manufacturing, 13

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